If true, that's very misleading.
The vast majority of those would be s-hole countries nobody wants to travel to.
The problem for Russians is that they arrive in countries like Thailand and it's very hard to stay long term, and they're very unwelcome in the west these days to even visit as a tourist.
They could go to Georgia and stay a year on each entry but face a lot of hostility from locals and a government that is led by a pro Putin oligarch -- so that's not secure for them either.
Personally, I think the west should actively recruit the more promising of the Russian draft dodgers. It's not their fault that Putin happened.